FREE TRADE! FAIR TRADE!! RECIPROCITY!!! RETALIATION!!!! A gruesome huge misshapen monster void of sight.— Virgil. BY G. L. M. LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 125, STRAND. 1885. Price Sixpence. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. Dedicated TO SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, Bart. , IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE MANY VALUABLE HINTS THE AUTHOR HAS DERIVED FROM HIS “BUBBLES.”...

The following squib was written in 1883, with the intention of drawing attention to the serious danger into which we are rapidly drifting, through the suicidal policy of our rulers. Since it was written the evils indicated therein have greatly increased in intensity. The interests of the producers having been completely sacrificed to those of the consumers; the results of such a policy are becoming painfully apparent, in the increasing number of the unemployed, consequent on unlimited foreign co

My Idolatrous Compatriot! Were it not for the gravity of the situation, it would be amusing to watch the self-complacent smile of conscious superiority which you assume, when descanting on the paternal character of our rule in suppressing such abuses as those of Suttee and Jugernāth; unconscious at the same time that the Jugernāth of the wretched Hindoo is dwarfed into complete insignificance when compared with that huge idol which you yourself have set up for worship. My dear fellow! for goodne

Now, my Friend, I am not sanguine enough to expect a patient hearing from you whilst I revile that idol which you have set up with sound of sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and other kinds of (un)musical instruments. I am perfectly aware that I shall be cast, by you, into the fiery furnace of criticism; I can imagine, in anticipation, the vials of your wrath poured out on my unlucky head; and I don’t expect to escape like our friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I am not composed of those materi

Allow me, my dear Idolator, to make a few quotations from one of your sacred Vedas, on the subject of land. You are fond of quoting them when it suits your purpose. You will probably, attempt to discredit your sacred writings when they do not support your own views. You will argue that Adam Smith wrote when the conditions of society and commerce were very different from what they are now. Mathematicians say, that when a formula will not accommodate itself to altering conditions and circumstances

FREE TRADE vs. FAIR TRADE. Mr. Blood’s Letter to Mr. Bright. 32, Charlotte Street, Birmingham. Dear Sir ,—The Birmingham newspapers have recently published a letter written to you by Mr. W. G. Lord, of Bradford, on the subject of Free Trade. The letter is somewhat brief, and it struck me that, though you might not feel called upon to enter into correspondence on such subjects with persons who are not your constituents, possibly you might feel more disposed to discuss the question with an Elector

The three F’s: Fixity of Tenure, Fair Rent, Freedom of Sale. Contemporary Review , February, 1881. The grounds on which the principle of the three F’s were opposed in 1880:— The Act of 1870 was to be final, and it is a breach of faith to reopen the land question.   1. The Land Act of 1870 was an encroachment on the rights of landlords, but was allowed to pass on the understanding that it would be final.   2. To reopen the question with further confiscation is a gross breach of faith.   3. More e